Last weekend's winter storm dumped snow and ice across the South, but some people also experienced loud booms and felt their homes shake because of a weather phenomenon called "frost quake." ...

If you heard a loud cracking or popping noise, or maybe even felt the ground shake a little, you might have experienced a ...

No, it's not an earthquake. The winter phenomenon is a seismic event caused by a sudden cracking in frozen soil or rock ...

If you hear a loud "boom" in central Illinois this week, it could be a frost quake, a weather phenomenon that happens when temperatures plummet and groundwater freezes quickly.

Heard a loud boom in Nashville? It wasn't an earthquake. What to know about frost quakes.

On New Year’s Day, a preliminary 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook the city of San Ramon, California, at precisely 4:58 p.m., as reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). This event has ...

Earthquakes cause fault rupture, displacement of the ground, strong shaking, and tsunamis. These are all fairly well-understood phenomena. But there are other things associated with earthquakes that ...

Residents in the Mojave Desert felt light shaking on Sunday, January 18, as a small earthquake swarm struck near Ridgecrest, CA. This seismic activity, reported by seismologists, has raised concerns ...